Ezekiel 35

1 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

2 "Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir, and prophesy against it,

“Son of man, set your face against Mount Seir and prophesy against it,

3 and tell it, 'Thus says the LORD: "Look, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation and an astonishment.

and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.

4 I will lay your cities waste, and you shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

5 "'"Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,

6 therefore, as I live," says the LORD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

7 Thus will I make Mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him who passes through and him who returns.

I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

8 I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.

I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities shall not be inhabited; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

10 "'"Because you have said, 'These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it'; whereas the LORD was there:

Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,

11 therefore, as I live," says the LORD, "I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.

therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will treat you according to the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred against them, and I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

12 You shall know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they have been given us to devour.

Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’

13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it."

You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

14 Thus says the LORD: "When the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the LORD."'"

As you rejoiced when the inheritance of the house of Israel became desolate, so will I do to you. You will become a desolation, O Mount Seir, and so will all of Edom. Then they will know that I am the LORD.